[pypy-svn] pypy default: Skip this test if os.mknod() always requires being root, as it

[arigo]

Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: 
Changeset: r40229:09352cd720ff
Date: 2010-12-26 17:44 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/09352cd720ff/

Log:	Skip this test if os.mknod() always requires being root, as it seems
	to be the case e.g. on Mac OS X.

diff --git a/pypy/module/posix/test/test_posix2.py b/pypy/module/posix/test/test_posix2.py
--- a/pypy/module/posix/test/test_posix2.py
+++ b/pypy/module/posix/test/test_posix2.py
@@ -679,8 +679,12 @@
         def test_mknod(self):
             import stat
             os = self.posix
-            # not very useful: os.mknod() without specifying 'mode'
-            os.mknod(self.path2 + 'test_mknod-1')
+            # os.mknod() may require root priviledges to work at all
+            try:
+                # not very useful: os.mknod() without specifying 'mode'
+                os.mknod(self.path2 + 'test_mknod-1')
+            except OSError, e:
+                skip("os.mknod(): got %r" % (e,))
             st = os.lstat(self.path2 + 'test_mknod-1')
             assert stat.S_ISREG(st.st_mode)
             # os.mknod() with S_IFIFO